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We’re officially conference-weary after running around the San Diego Convention Center for four days of ADA briefings, sessions, meet-ups and expo booth visits. We lugged home loads of material that will surely keep us post-happy here at the ‘Mine for weeks. So what was super-new and hot? Spoiler Alert: Not all that much this year.
Our overall impression was that a lot of cool technologies we’ve already seen are stuck in the holding pen while…

The annual ADA Scientific Sessions conference is always kind of a mind-blower. It brings together 13,000 scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals (and now, bloggers!) from around the world.
This year, there will be hundreds of symposia, 59 special lectures, nearly 378 abstracts presented, and also nearly 2,000 research posters unveiled. Whew!
Thankfully, the ADA helps out bloggers and the media with a summary called “Clues to the News.” Here is our take on…

Yesterday and this morning, Allison and I attended the third annual Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit — a power-packed get-together of 37 diabetes bloggers and “online influencers” that allows us to pow-wow on all sorts of social media and diabetes advocacy topics. Kudos to Roche for continuing this program.
This year, the meeting was held at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, directly across from the Convention Center where the annual ADA Scientific Sessions…

June is National Employee Wellness Month, Folks. Did you know?
It’s a campaign created a few years ago by none other than Virgin HealthMiles, a leading provider of employee health programs (go figure). And this year’s initiative is co-sponsored by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. Why do we smell diabetes all over that?
A lot of the focus here…

Last week, the American Diabetes Association released the fifth edition of their Complete Guide to Diabetes. So what, right? What’s special about this new edition? We don’t usually even bother reviewing multi-author guides published by big organizations. True that. But we thought it was time to have a look-see whether an “everything-guide” like this can really offer anything of value to a long-time PWD?
The ADA’s Guide really is like an encyclopedia of diabetes. So…